Vital Forslkring AS, Bergen, Norway, notified us that on January 4, 2008 they had exceeded the 3% voting rights threshold in ADVA AG Optical Networking and that their share of voting rights was at 3.41% (1.568.408 voting rights) that day.
The voting rights are to be ascribed to Vital Forslkring AS pursuant to section 22 paragraph 1, sentence 1, number 6 WpHG
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